| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: mine is the speech that cannot be silenced. Of course, a fool,
what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.
Who's that grunting? You wonder I didn't go ashore for a howl
and a dance? Well, no--I didn't. Fine sentiments, you say?
Fine sentiments, be hanged! I had no time. I had to mess
about with white-lead and strips of woolen blanket helping
to put bandages on those leaky steam-pipes--I tell you.
I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags,
and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook. There was
surface-truth enough in these things to save a wiser man.
And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman.
Heart of Darkness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: pile of gaping trunks in the passage, was strangely commingled with
the air of indignant withdrawal. When Morgan took all this in -
and he took it in very quickly - he coloured to the roots of his
hair. He had walked from his infancy among difficulties and
dangers, but he had never seen a public exposure. Pemberton
noticed in a second glance at him that the tears had rushed into
his eyes and that they were tears of a new and untasted bitterness.
He wondered an instant, for the boy's sake, whether he might
successfully pretend not to understand. Not successfully, he felt,
as Mr. and Mrs. Moreen, dinnerless by their extinguished hearth,
rose before him in their little dishonoured salon, casting about
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: cleverest political economist that ever lived. I admit without
hesitation that any Scheme which weakened the incentive to Thrift would
do harm. But it is a mistake to imagine that social damnation is an
incentive to Thrift. It operates least where its force ought to be
most felt. There is no fear that any Scheme that we can devise will
appreciably diminish the deterrent influences which dispose a man to
save. But it is idle wasting time upon a plea that is only brought
forward as an excuse for inaction. Thrift is a great virtue, the
inculcation of which must be constantly kept in view by all those who
are attempting to "educate and save the people. It is not in any sense
a specific for the salvation of the lapsed and the lost. Even among
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
